Where are you at?

Your sentence is indeed so common that I think some experts may consider it correct. At is redundant since where means "in or at what place" without at. Besides, you don't answer Where are you at? by saying: I'm at here!

CB

I heard this, and similar, though:

Wife to husband, on the phone:

W: Where are you?

H: I'm in the car, driving.

W: No, I meant "where are you at"?

H: Ah, I'm about two miles from Newcastle, on the motorway.

So is it possible that "at" is used as a special marker in some way?

AnonymousSo is it possible that "at" is used as a special marker in some way?

Your example seems fine with me.

CB

The correct expression is "where are you?" "Where are you at?" is wrong. It is one of the uncorrected expressions that have become so common that they are beginning to sound correct. Other examples are "return back" (instead of return) and "different than" (instead of different from). These days high school and college students frequently say "on accident" instead of "by accident." Some of us hav

AnonymousIt is one of the uncorrected expressions that have become so common that they are beginning to sound correct.

Everything in modern English has become so common that it sounds good and correct nowadays even though it was originally wrong. If we think that the English language has been called English since the late 5th century or early 6th centur